Media Coverage
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International Teachers Needed in U.S. Classrooms Threatened by Visa Delays, Fees
The international teaching pool is critical for districts large and small, said Lora Bartlett, chair of the education department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She said, too, if the $100,000 fee were to stand, it would only harm students. “U.S. schools in general do better with stable teacher populations,” Bartlett said. “And so when…
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Humpback whales likely killed by neurotoxin
The UC Santa Cruz Marine Mammal Stranding Network recently necropsied two young humpback whales. They washed up at Lovers Point Beach in Pacific Grove and Sunset State Beach in Watsonville within a few days of each other. Stranding network director Robin Dunkin says researchers confirmed a neurotoxin from algae blooms to be the cause of…
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Young mountain lion rescued, released into Santa Cruz Mountains
She was captured and fitted with a GPS tracking collar as part of a UC Santa Cruz study. CDFW thanked researchers with the UC Santa Cruz Puma Project for assisting with the collaring and Redwood City police officers for helping secure the scene.
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Global pop star surprises UC Santa Cruz graduates with keynote speech
Becky G brought a jolt of star power — and a deeply personal message — to a UC Santa Cruz graduation celebration. Additional coverage in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, KRON4, KSBW, and NBC Bay Area.
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Elizabeth Blackburn: On fighting for truth, inclusion and the next generation of scientists
“In my case, molecular biologist Carol Greider of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and I discovered telomerase decades ago, and we discovered it through its enzyme activity. Now, after a lot of biochemical work and big advances in imaging and cryoelectron microscopy, you can actually see what telomerase looks like.”
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Flooding hits San Francisco’s Embarcadero as experts warn of more to come
Michael Beck, director of the Center for Coastal Climate Resilience at UC Santa Cruz, said conditions are expected to worsen and require long-term planning and investment. “It is going to get worse, and we need to start preparing for the fact that it is going to get worse. There are some places which we are…
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‘It was a matter of time’: Pacifica Pier’s future uncertain as emergency repairs begin
“Anything we put in the water is going to fail over time,” said Gary Griggs, professor of earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz. “Pacifica, if it was (built) in ’73 and that’s now 50 years ago, it was a matter of time.”
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AWS rolls the dice for faster, more efficient networking
RNG began taking shape three years ago when Seshadhri Comandur, an Amazon Scholar and professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, answered an internal Slack message from Ratul Mahajan, a fellow Amazon Scholar, datacenter networking expert, and professor at the University of Washington, who was looking for an expert on graph theory and routing.
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The next AI safety fight may actually be about DNA
“[Gene synthesis] companies have to agree to have their order screened not just against a list of sequences but by an AI that people agree is smart enough to recognize and thwart an adversary who’s trying to build a deadly pathogen,” David Haussler, the scientific director of the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute.
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Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself.
Other scientists agree that some amount of water could have formed on Earth — but perhaps not nearly enough to produce its oceans. “I’d say it’s certainly possible that some water could be generated by reaction with hydrogen early on,” said Quentin Williams, an experimental geophysicist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. “How much…
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Santa Cruz County officials warn beachgoers to use caution amid heat
In a joint message, the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office, the Santa Cruz County Office of Response, Recovery & Resilience, Cal Fire CZU, UC Santa Cruz and the city of Santa Cruz stated they are coordinating beach safety outreach efforts, including deploying electronic message boards.
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What’s in it for teachers – Why pay alone won’t fix India’s education system
Four teachers from India who went to University of California, Santa Cruz to participate in a summer internship in 2025 came back so enthused that now hundreds of teachers around them want to learn from their experience and target similar experiences themselves.